LISA YUN LEE is the Executive Director of the National Public Housing Museum, a cultural activist, and an Associate Professor of Public Culture and Museum Studies in the University of Illinois Chicago School of Art & Art History.
As the previous Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, she oversaw a renovation of one of the US’s most important historic sites. As the Director of the UIC School of Art & Art History, she helped to found the Museum and Exhibition Studies Program that is committed to social justice.
Lisa has published articles about housing as a human right, democratization of historic preservation, museums as sites for radical democracy, and written a book about philosopher and cultural critic Theodor Adorno. She served on both Mayor Brandon Johnson and Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Arts & Culture Transition Teams, and on the city of Chicago’s Commission for Monuments, Memorials, and Historical Reckoning. She was appointed by Governor Pritzker to the Board of the Illinois State Museum, and currently serves on the boards of the Field Foundation, and the American Association of State and Local History.
Bio as of 12/2024